No other findings is a rhythmic collection of calibration scans of my body produced by a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine. These scans track the development of my chronic illness. While they contain deeply personal information about my internal world, they reveal little through their abstraction. The pacing is meant to echo waves or the meditative breathing one might enact while resting in the MRI machine. Considering the dispossession and deferral of all Black life, what might it mean to consider breath, proximity, and touch alongside the sanctified moments American Artist’s Dignity Images endeavour to hold?
—Jessica Karuhanga
No other findings
Reader-in-Residence response to Burning Glass, Reading Stone Image Set 6: Dignity Images
Responding to the way Dignity Images reappraises what gets shared online, Karuhanga offers a pulsing slideshow of her own MRI images. These photographs see into the body, indexing the ways chronic illness may or may not be representable by medical imaging. Fragments of the artist’s body dissolve and reappear; at the very edge of legibility, they call into question what can be known and apprehended about a body.
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